Donโ€™t Just Investigate; Promulgate! Court Orders Chemical Safety Board to Produce Chemical Reporting Requirements - PEER.org

Donโ€™t Just Investigate; Promulgate! Court Orders Chemical Safety Board to Produce Chemical Reporting Requirements

From: JD Supra

โ€œIn a succinct, yet forceful, decision, Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia lambasted the CSB for what he called โ€œan egregious abdication of a statutory obligationโ€ to promulgate reporting regulations under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.1 Even by its own admission, the CSB is required by the Clean Air Act to โ€œestablish by regulation requirements binding on persons for reporting accidental releases into the ambient air subject to the Boardโ€™s investigatory jurisdiction.โ€2 In its decision, the court dismissed the CSBโ€™s arguments that plaintiff environmental groups lacked standing and found that the Board did โ€œunreasonably delayโ€ action after having failed to promulgate regulations for nearly 28 years.”

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